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Photo walks, a popular activity among photo-sharing communities, let us all be a part of something no matter where we are in the world. By taking a walk this weekend and sharing the pictures with us, you’re contributing to a global mural of life.

So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!

Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 218 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!

Congratulations to member bannercgtl10 on winning the Glass: People’s Choice Photo of the Day!  Your photo will be featured on the homepage tomorrow!

Photo walks, a popular activity among photo-sharing communities, let us all be a part of something no matter where we are in the world. By taking a walk this weekend and sharing the pictures with us, you’re contributing to a global mural of life.

So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!

Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 217 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!

Valentine’s day is drawing near and in a couple weeks, we’re devoting an entire day to celebrate the heart shape. There are lots of  large and small examples of hearts out there to photograph (like these bleeding hearts shown above).  Those little candy hearts or chocolate truffle hearts are always a delicious prop…yum! Perhaps you know of a sweetheart tree or if you’re lucky enough to live by the shore, maybe create your own heart on a romantic beach!  Whatever you choose to do, just create your photo with lots of love and get those creative juices flowing!

OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-hearts. You can then view them and everyone else’s submissions on the DISPLAY PAGE (it updates about every hour). To find out more about this, read the Using Tags on Creative Challenges post.

Submission Guidelines
1. Our editors look for sharp, clear horizontal images that are at a minimum resolution of 800×600 (submissions can have larger resolutions than this). Currently, vertical images cannot fit in the homepage template. Therefore, we cannot publish vertical or narrow panoramic images.

2. Images with added text or images, including watermarks, logos, copyright symbols, graphic borders, frames and time stamps, will not be considered for first place or being featured on the homepage big photo of the day at a later date. Collages, however, are acceptable. Images submitted should be your own.

3. Please do not submit pictures that have already been featured on the homepage.

4. The Creative Challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. on January 18th,  through 12:00 p.m on January 30th  (all times EST). 

5. 3 pictures per person (regardless of how many member accounts you have) tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-hearts. *Note: Images that don’t meet the exact guidelines can be submitted and viewed for everyone to enjoy, but please understand that we cannot publish images that don’t meet minimum guidelines on the homepage.

Next Challenge Theme: Road Signs

Please vote for your favorite photo (no more than one vote per image, per IP address) through 9:00 am (EST) January 23rd, 2012. The winning photo will be featured on the Webshots homepage as a future POTD in January. (Note: if you don’t see the vote button under each photo, please try FireFox as a browser) After voting, you may need to refresh your browser.

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Glass is a fascinating and beautiful material to photograph for the many ways that the material can be formed and how light can accentuate its beauty. There was no limit to creativity for this challenge. Beauty can be found in household paperweights, vases, bottles, light bulbs, drinking glasses as well as stained glass and sculptures.

Once again, there were several outstanding entries which were such a visual delight to browse through. We hope you enjoyed this challenge as much as we enjoyed viewing them.

Thank you to everyone who submitted their glass entries! To view all of the photos please visit the DISPLAY_PAGE

Please cast your vote for the People’s Choice POTD. You have till 9am (EST) on January 23rd to cast your vote.

#1. “Chihuly Ceiling” by member mbbeguin – Congratulations! Your Photo will be featured on the Webshots homepage tomorrow!

#2. “Eindhoven Glow 2011″ by member akoene100

#3. “Galeries Lafayette” by member swissmike62

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Photo walks, a popular activity among photo-sharing communities, let us all be a part of something no matter where we are in the world. By taking a walk this weekend and sharing the pictures with us, you’re contributing to a global mural of life.

So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!

Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 216 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!

Congratulations to member bfryxell on winning the Landmark Interiors: People’s Choice Photo of the Day!  Your photo will be featured on the homepage tomorrow!

Make sure to get your entries in for the next Creative Challenge: Glass! You have until next Monday, January 16th to get in your submissions!

Photo walks, a popular activity among photo-sharing communities, let us all be a part of something no matter where we are in the world. By taking a walk this weekend and sharing the pictures with us, you’re contributing to a global mural of life.

So put on your walking shoes, grab your camera and go for a walk. You’ll be surprised at the photographic opportunities that present themselves. We’d love to see all of your photos as you can submit as many as you like!

Please tag your photos with Weekend Photo Walk 215 and then post your links in the comment section. Your entries won’t be judged—this is just for the fun of it!

Glass is a fascinating and beautiful material to photograph for the many ways that the material can be formed and how light can accentuate its beauty. There’s no limit to creativity for this challenge. Beauty can be found in household paperweights, vases, bottles, light bulbs, drinking glasses as well as stained glass and sculptures (like the one above from Dale Chihuly).  We encourage you to photograph the glass in a manner that doesn’t simply document the item, but to explore a different vantage point and compositions of the subject to make your photo unique.  Perhaps try macro settings and play with the sense of scale. Have fun with different light sources to illuminate your subject.

Don’t forget to vote your choice for the people’s choice POTD for the landmark interiors challenge. Voting ends on January 9th at 9:00 am (EST)

OFFICIAL ENTRY RULES
To officially enter the Creative Challenge, you must tag your three submissions with creative-challenge-glass. You can then view them and everyone else’s submissions on the DISPLAY PAGE (it updates about every hour). To find out more about this, read the Using Tags on Creative Challenges post.

Submission Guidelines
1. Our editors look for sharp, clear horizontal images that are at a minimum resolution of 800×600 (submissions can have larger resolutions than this). Currently, vertical images cannot fit in the homepage template. Therefore, we cannot publish vertical or narrow panoramic images.

2. Images with added text or images, including watermarks, logos, copyright symbols, graphic borders, frames and time stamps, will not be considered for first place or being featured on the homepage big photo of the day at a later date. Collages, however, are acceptable. Images submitted should be your own.

3. Please do not submit pictures that have already been featured on the homepage.

4. The Creative Challenge runs from 12:01 a.m. on January 4th,  through 12:00 p.m on January 16th  (all times EST). 

5. 3 pictures per person (regardless of how many member accounts you have) tagged exactly (including hyphens) with: creative-challenge-glass. *Note: Images that don’t meet the exact guidelines can be submitted and viewed for everyone to enjoy, but please understand that we cannot publish images that don’t meet minimum guidelines on the homepage.

Next Challenge Theme: Hearts